<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY LINK="#0000ff"> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:36 +0800, Jong Lin wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Hi Gaetan, It would be a problem to divide the big patch into small ones because of big features such as EXA support. The individual feature of EXA support is still a big patch. As I know, Ian was the maintainer of XGI driver by 5/2008 but he hasn’t been in charge of it for a long time. From the following link, we found a new revision xf86-video-xgi-1.5.1 of XGI driver which is tagged by <TABLE CELLPADDING="0"> <TR> <TD>   </TD> <TD> Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> </TD> </TR> </TABLE>     <A HREF="http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-xgi.git">http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-xgi.git</A>     It seems that Dave takes over the act of maintainer after Ian. Is it right? </BLOCKQUOTE> I do not know. Occasionally people unrelated to the driver may do some maintenance. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Do you have any idea of who is the current maintainer? </BLOCKQUOTE> I don't. It seems like you work for XGI Technology Inc, and the video driver is for their GPU products. You might be the best person to find out. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> BTW, do you know who have the authority to assign maintainer or what is the process of assigning a maintainer for specific driver? We might need to contact the right person to get permission to check in the big patch. Please comment. Thanks a lot. </BLOCKQUOTE> I am a developer with commit privilege as I do regular maintenance on the GNU build system. X.Org does not assign maintainers as it does not have any employee. Who ever needs a particular driver supplies the maintainer which may be an employee of XGI Technology Inc or a volunteer from the it's users community. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>       </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>